These can all be assigned to respond to the Control Change message of your choice, via Pro Tools' standard MIDI Learn function (right-click), providing some nice options for expressive performance.įig. There are normally Envelope Controls (in the “Easy” section), and a variety of customized tweaks per Part, including parameters like filter cutoff, EQ, sound layering, effects, etc. Options & Limitsīut despite the limited, pre-selected options for sound design adjustment, most of the parameters you'd normally want or need to tweak, to shape an instrument's sound & response to your particular needs, are usually provided as part of the Part's factory-chosen parameter set. well, if the particular instrument Part you'd loaded offers a control for that, you'd be good to go, but if not, you'd be out of luck.
So if you wanted to, say, change the filter resonance of an instrument. Rather than have a full bank of controls for all the usual aspects of sound instrument programming-keymapping, filters, envelopes, LFOs, etc.-Xpand!2 offers only a pre-selected set of controls for each different instrument in the library, that have been chosen for you by the sound designers.
This is where Xpand!2 starts to show its preset nature. 5: The parameters area (“Smart Knobs”) in Xpand!2
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